Michael Grandage News

Ewan McGregor opens in Guys and Dolls, Scrooge fills a festive gap, Mackintosh brings the RSC to London, Spamalot plans a transfer and Michael Ball returns to the radio..

The hit West End production of Schiller's Don Carlos starring Sir Derek Jacobi may be heading for Broadway

The 2004/05 season continues in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield with LEAR which runs from Wednesday 9 March - Saturday 2 April 2005. Bond's epic masterpiece, brought to vivid life in a new Crucible production that reunites Ian McDiarmid and Jonathan Kent for the first time since leaving the Almeida Theatre in London.

Jake looks back at 2004 in the UK theatre industry, including the summer's disastrous closing trend and the 'big 3' winter..

Closings, Mary Poppins rehearsals and new songs for Bat Boy...

Guys and Dolls revive themselves in London, Sweeney Todd takes us to the chair again, and is Wicked about to fly Chitty out of town??